825th Tank Destroyer Battalion

Unit History: Activated on 10 August, 1942, at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma. Reorganized as a towed battalion in July, 1943. Assigned to Communications Zone and 12th Army Group security duties between August and December 1944. On 17 December, the battalion entered combat near Malmedy, Belgium. Returned to security duties on 16 January, 1945. Attached to: 30th Infantry Division. History text from the book The Tank Killers by Harry Yeide. Used by permission.

1.) Unit History - This 62 page document includes 19 pages of history, an awards and decorations page, a roster of each company and the medics, a list of those KIA and a list of where the unit was stationed and when. It was published in Wiesbaden, Germany in 1945 and was the possession of Pvt. Robert W. Letson, who was a member of Headquarters Company. He had a number of other HQ company members sign the book.

3.) After Action/Activity Reports - from the Combined Arms Research Library of the Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, Abilene, Kansas (*).